a freight train -- engine, a car carrier , several boxcars and a caboose. a hatch opens up an the roof of one of the boxcars near the tail of the train and. deakins jumps the gap between two boxcars and walks on. we angle down to reveal. the gunman at the caboose is firing on wilkins's helicopter, hanging a hundred yards off the back of the train. deakins and the gunman keep firing on the helicopter as. the front cars accordion sideways off the tracks, down a short, steep, embankment. it's all grinding, twisting, groaning metal.